Samoa crisis map. Ushahidi map from Samoa; photo from Ushahidi's Facebook page. One of the best technology innovations I have come across lately is the BRCK. The prototype was developed in Nairobi, Kenya.

Currently used mostly for business promotion and tourism, this new program ultimately enable small clinics to keep track of their services and manpower in terms of time and space on the web, hopefully at very little cost.

In terms of healthcare, at least one of the pages using this new tool uses it to promote it medical tourism and the expat healthcare industry

Other promo sites with news or descriptions about this new tool include:

Faced with the incomprehensible scale of worldwide mega-urbanization, observers have alternately fallen back on sheer numbers or city comparisons to drive home the speed at which cities in the developing world are growing.

Fast CompanyHow Google Is Fighting Sex Trafficking With Big DataFast CompanyGoogle Crisis Maps was created to show damage and resources following emergency events in the areas of wildfires, air quality, floods, and hurricanes.

I used three tools so far: Crowdmap, YouTube, and Facebook. Crowdmap's importance is in the data it can create. YouTube's importance is in the inherent value of storytelling in value-proposition. Facebook's importance is in ...

The camps in Turkey, Iraq and Egypt have not yet been mapped by the UN's satellites – so even the maps by UNOSAT are just a drop in the ocean. The UNHCR says it needs $1.1 billion to cope with the crisis by December ...

GIS is a mainstay in foreign countries. It can exert more pressure politically and financially than any photograph or carefully planned news release. Mapping the consequences of everyday changes with GIS or remote sensing can exert more pressure than even the best planned public relations campaigns. By focusing too much on the minutia (people, cases and events), we often lose track of the bigger meaning (populations and their needs).

When we attach points to a map we are pointing to cause and effect, victims and events. Maps assign more than just meaning to a situation, they link it to events and consequences people and places. With regards to privacy and privacy concerns, there is no need to reveal a name or address on a map when it provides you with this much data. We stop thinking about individuals and focus on what happened to a region due to this style of mapping. We begin to think about culture and place, and the population as a whole.

Concerns for particular individuals, people you may know by name or face, are minimized whenever events like these happen. As individuals, only a few onlooker ever assign meaning to individuals they might know on such a map. To total strangers, meaning is instead assigned to events and populations. All of this is due to an aerial photo, a satellite image, or a highly detailed map about an event.

In China, 'Danger Maps' highlight pollution, toxic waste, abuse, other risks NorthJersey.com Inspired by "crowd-mapping" efforts in Kenya and Japan, the site taps the knowledge of China's masses to draw attention to environmental risks in a nation...

Crisis Maps: Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Deliver Humanitarian Assistance Forbes Crisis-mapping technology has emerged in the past five years as a tool to help humanitarian organizations deliver assistance to victims of civil conflicts and...

Ushahidi: An Introduction to Anti-Corruption MappingTransparency International (press release) (blog)Ushahidians have been mapping corruption as either a category or their whole map mission since we launched.

In light of the rapidly proliferating initiatives to make new uses of information technology for protection purposes, such as satellite imagery, crisis mapping and publicizing abuses and violations through social media, the ...

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